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Talking at 6 months - is this even possible?

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alandimi · 26/01/2009 08:46

My exP's mother swears exP was talking (actual words not dada, mama etc) at 6 months old and that by 1 year he was managing sentences and having conversations. Is this even possible? I don't think I've ever come across a baby that could hold a conversation at 1. And so now when we go round to see her she asks if my dd will be talking soon - she's 4 and a half months!!

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sarah293 · 26/01/2009 08:48

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Paperchase · 26/01/2009 08:49

It is very common for the older generation to have lost their marbles a poor recollection of when their child did what.

6 months?

I very much doubt it. 3 word sentences not uncommon at 12 months.

Soon, she will tell you your exP was potty trained at 14months and could read and write at 2.

Smile and nod.

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MadameCastafiore · 26/01/2009 08:52

XH's grandma swears that her 4 were potty trained at 6 months!

They seem to lose their recolections of time when they get past a certain age I think.

I am not being mean BTW - his grandma was the only nice member of the family!

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LIZS · 26/01/2009 08:53

Simple sounds maybe but tbh it sounds more like a selective memory lapse to me ! She'll swear he was potty trained by a year too , you wait.

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Paperchase · 26/01/2009 08:58

Oh - when I say 'uncommon', I actually mean 'not unheard of.'

Not very common to be putting words together at 12 months, really.

You may like to start responding with a cheery laugh and say "Oh, they're all the same at five" whenever she starts on the 'hasn't she done x yet?"

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alandimi · 26/01/2009 08:59

Hmm, my mother doubts it too! ExP is very clever but I didn't talk until I was 3 so I doubt my little dd will be holding a debate any time soon!

Bonkers!

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lindenlass · 26/01/2009 09:05

I doubt it! I can't see how on earth a baby of that age can have enough control over his muscles in his mouth to make them say words!

Some older people do have rather a skewed memory sometimes...

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seeker · 26/01/2009 09:41

My dd was saying proper words at 9 months - and putting them together in at 10 months. Nobody believed me - then she pointed at a Christmas tree and said "LOOK! Pitty lights!" in the presence of 10 witnesses when she was 11 months (on her dad's birthday so I know exactly when it was) She went on to be a very articulate, fluent talker - but has never been more than averagely bright, so it doesn't actually mean anything except that this was a particular hoop she jumped through very early. It was huge fun, though!

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thatsnotmymonster · 26/01/2009 09:49

SIL claims my dneice said first words at about 6mo (all gone, ta etc.) she probably did as she was very advanced with language.

ds could definitely say cat at 9mo and had quite a few words and animal sounds by a year.

dd1 was 18mo before any words passed her lips!

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kittybrown · 26/01/2009 11:07

My ds said words at 6 mths we dismissed it at first but he would point to pictures of balls in books and say "boll" as well as a few others. He was a very fluent sentence talker by around 16mths. He was unsual but we thought nothing of it as our friends dd was just as fluent at the same age.
So I know it's possible just a bit unusual.

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lijaco · 26/01/2009 12:08

smile and wave boys !

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RockinSockBunnies · 26/01/2009 12:10

I did once know a child progidy that could read The Times fluently at around 15 months. Both his parents were total brainiacs and obviously their son was gifted in the extreme!

But other than that one child, I've never come across any others like that.

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lijaco · 26/01/2009 12:11

I dont think that 16 months is unusual my ds is that age now and talking really well.
he can ask for what he wants, chat on the telephone to others. He speaks to people outside by starting conversation with hello. He is really funny.

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PurlyQueen · 26/01/2009 12:38

My son said 'cat' and 'miaow' in front of my mother and I when he was 9 months old.

I told this to my MIL. She humoured me - until he said 'baby' in front of her at 10 months.

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MissusLindt · 26/01/2009 12:42

I went to Germany as an Aupair and the little boy that I looked after was VERY advanced. He was speaking in sentences when I arrived, just a month before his first birthday at the end of September.

I clearly remember him looking out at the snow and asking "Wo ist die Urlaub?" (Where is the holiday?). They had recently been on a skiing holiday, he did not realise that he could see snow at home too.

He was walking too, and riding a 3-wheeler. In fact, I thought for ages that he had just turned 2yo.

It is possible, but very unusual.

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seeker · 26/01/2009 14:33

But as I said, it's just a "performing monkey" trick - it doesn't say anything about their intelligence or development in other areas.

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Marne · 26/01/2009 14:36

Dd1 (AS) spoke from around 7 months, her first word was 'triangle' , she hasn't shut up since .

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MissusLindt · 26/01/2009 16:18

True, Seeker. A friend's uncle spoke extremely early and everyone thought he was a genius.

It was the first and last time that he excelled his peers in anything.

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seeker · 26/01/2009 17:24

I suspect they all do it - but most of them haven't got the muscular control to form the words comprehensibly. My dd still has a very clear voice and she sings - I wonder whether there is something about the muscles of the mouth and tongue that makes these early talkers different from their equally articulate but incomprehensible peers!

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ladycornyofsilke · 26/01/2009 17:27

In contrast Einstein spoke very late!

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coppertop · 26/01/2009 20:29

Dd was able to talk at around 6-7mths old and it freaked me out a fair bit, mainly because ds2 had started as an early talker and then regressed before later being diagnosed with autism.

By 7 months she was saying things like "Hello Daddy" and "Bye bye, Mummy". still has good language skills.

Before anyone accuses me of smuggery though, ds1 was a late talker (3'ish when he said his first real word) and ds2 has language difficulties.

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lljkk · 27/01/2009 10:30

Friend claimed that her DD was saying 'light' and 'ball' at 6-7 months, I believe her because the mother talked about it at the time and could be very specific about when and where (though I didn't notice the child's words). What I actually observed for myself was that this little girl was talking in lengthly complex sentences by 18 months.

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newpup · 27/01/2009 10:59

My DD2 had quite a reasonable vocabulary at 7 months and she was talking in sentences by a year old. She is very bright and articulate. Now at age 7, she is several years ahead of her peers in terms of spoken and written language.

However, I do remember people looking doubtful when I told them things she had said! Even now I do not think people believe she talked that early unless they heard her.

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